One of the reviewers from Christianity Today approvingly noted, 'The main character is portrayed as a Christian without being psychopathic or holier-than-thou'! The director is very skilfully manipulating the audience, but I'll have to admit that he does it with the best melodramatic sense possible. This is definitely a chick flick - syrupy sweet, designed to be loved by the Christian community due to the film's moral values. but that change when Landon has trouble learning his lines for the school play and he asks Jamie for help. Their differing social statures leave them worlds apart, despite their close physical proximity. At these functions he is forced to interact with quiet and religious, bookish Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), a girl he has known for many years but to whom he has rarely ever spoken. His punishment is mandatory participation in various after-school activities, such as tutoring disadvantaged children and performing in the drama club's spring musical. Everything goes wrong the student finishes in a hospital with serious injuries, and popular but rebellious Landon Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion.

The story in the novel is set in the 1950s while the film is set in 1998, and it starts with a prank from a group of 'cool' teenagers on a fellow high-school student, Clay Gephardt. The film stars Shane West and Mandy Moore, and was directed by Adam Shankman. This movie was recommended to me recently as a new Love Story, but after watching it I have to say that this coming-of-age teen romantic melodrama based on the 1999 romance novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks, was a big disappointment.

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